Vocabulary in Context
Looking through your Shift Challenging Vocabulary Chart, find the correct word to complete the sentence. These are taken directly from the novel in context.
I wrestled the bike through the dorm's gaping front doors snagging the derailleur cable. I _________ swore, and hoped none of half-dozen people were watching."
What is lurched?
Make an abrupt, unsteady, uncontrolled movement or series of movements; stagger.
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Definition: provoke or annoy someone by continual criticism or questioning.
What is needling?
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Definition: of, resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified.
What is regal?
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Definition: An oath or curse word.
What is an expletive?
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Definition: the use of psychological terms without the experience and understanding necessary to do so.
What is psychobabble?
Looking through your Shift Challenging Vocabulary Chart, find the correct word to complete the sentence. These are taken directly from the novel in context.
"Something about the way my legs were itching said I did, but the message hadn't quite reached my brain. I shook my head _________________."
What is lamely?
Doing something in a weak, unconvincing, or inadequate way.
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Definition: having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
What is ambitious?
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Definition: give (someone or something) the authority or means to do something.
What is enabling?
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Definition: Go around from one place to another in the pursuit of pleasure or entertainment.
What is gallivanting?
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Definition: showing a lack of proper concern
What is cavalier?
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"Three weeks before I graduated from high school, my mother asked me a question. Actually, Mom never really asked anything, she just camouflaged commands inside _________________.
What are queries?
Ask a question about something, especially to express one's doubts about it or to check its validity or accuracy.
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Definition: lack of interest, concern, or sympathy
What is indifference?
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Definition: a person who causes trouble by drinking, being violent, or otherwise behaving outrageously.
What is a hell-raiser?
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Definition: say something amusing while affecting a serious matter.
What is deadpanned?
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Definition: feeling or showing anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment.
What is indignant
Looking through your Shift Challenging Vocabulary Chart, find the correct word to complete the sentence. These are taken directly from the novel in context.
"Win and I hadn't so much discussed it since, but the notion had sustained me through the most _____________ later stages of senioritis."
What is debilitating?
Making someone very weak and infirm.
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Definition: characterized by an unusual interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.
What is morbid?
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Definition: done or reached decisively and with authority
What is definitive?
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Definition: a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation
What is a tirade?
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Definition: in a formal and dignified manner with deep sincerity.
What is solemnly?
Looking through your Shift Challenging Vocabulary Chart, find the correct word to complete the sentence. These are taken directly from the novel in context.
"Son, when I was twenty-one, before I married your mother, I planned to drive Route 66 from Chicago to California in a '67 Mustang I restored," he said, the last phrase falling with uncharacteristic ___________
What is wistfulness?
A feeling of vague or regretful longing.
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Definition: the quality or condition of being obstinate; stubbornness.
What is obstinacy?
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Definition: A supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.
What is senioritis?
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Definition: establish or settle ina comfortable, safe, or secret place.
What is esconced?
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Definition: be strongly attracted to someone or something
What is smitten?